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Bands from Canada

The 50 most-read bands based in Canada, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.

150 bands are ranked in Canada. The biggest move was Lennon & Maisy, up 31 places.

#	Artist	Readers	30d
01	Rushprogressive rock, rock	138,343	+1
02	Angine de Poitrinemath rock, experimental rock	132,989	-1
03	The Tragically Hiprock, blues rock	71,836	+12
04	The Bandfolk rock, country rock	65,716	+1
05	Nickelbackhard rock, post-grunge	58,363	-1
06	Barenaked Ladiesalternative rock, acoustic rock	56,304	+1
07	The Guess Whoblues rock, rock	54,234	-1
08	The Beachesindie rock, garage rock	45,189	-5
09	Sum 41pop punk, punk rock	43,986	0
10	k.d. lang and The Reclinesalternative country, country	42,215	0
11	Three Days Gracealternative rock, hard rock	39,853	-3
12	Simple Planpop punk, alternative rock	39,178	+5
13	Bachman–Turner Overdriverock, boogie rock	28,747	+3
14	Arcade Fireindie rock, chamber pop	28,686	0
15	Alexisonfirepost-hardcore, emo	28,155	+4
16	Steppenwolfhard rock, rock	27,728	-3
17	Godspeed You! Black Emperorpost-rock, instrumental	26,422	-5
18	Crystal Castleselectroclash, bitpop	25,027	+3
19	Cirque du Soleildowntempo, experimental	22,876	+1
20	Metricindie rock, electronic	21,892	+3
21	Spiritboxmetalcore, progressive metal	21,594	-10
22	Broken Social Sceneindie rock, art rock	20,031	+4
23	Triumphhard rock, aor	19,801	+12
24	Kittienu metal, heavy metal	17,249	+8
25	Men Without Hatsnew wave, pop	17,230	+3
26	Walk off the Earthindie pop	16,294	+20
27	Loverboyrock, hard rock	16,262	-2
28	Tegan and Saraindie pop, alternative rock	15,349	+1
29	Crash Test Dummiesalternative rock, indie rock	14,504	+4
30	LENindie rock, pop	14,309	-12
31	Skinny Puppyindustrial, electro-industrial	13,609	+5
32	femtanylbreakcore, digital hardcore	13,589	-5
33	Blue Rodeocountry rock, folk	13,523	+19
34	April Winehard rock, aor	12,800	0
35	Lennon & Maisycountry	12,373	+31
36	Billy Talentpunk rock, alternative rock	12,263	-12
37	Theory of a Deadmanhard rock, post-grunge	12,204	+5
38	Protest the Heroprogressive metal, mathcore	12,042	-16
39	Voivodthrash metal, progressive metal	11,626	-9
40	Silversteinemo, post-hardcore	11,485	-9
41	The New Pornographersindie rock, pop	11,415	+12
42	Cryptopsytechnical death metal, brutal death metal	10,699	+7
43	Finger Elevenpost-grunge, alternative rock	10,127	+1
44	Alvvaysdream pop, indie pop	10,084	+1
45	Men I Trustdream pop, indie pop	10,063	-4
46	The Dead Southbluegrass, americana	9,845	-7
47	Chromeofunktronica, electro-disco	9,780	+12
48	Our Lady Peacealternative rock, pop rock	9,587	-10
49	Cowboy Junkiesfolk, alternative country	9,565	-6
50	Loud Luxuryelectronic, house	9,548	0

Rising outside the top 50this month

111	Stripper’s Unionrock	503	+37
117	Digging Rootsblues, folk rock	430	+33
77	Corky and the Juice Pigscomedy	1,098	+27
130	One Bad Sonrock	318	+17
92	The Kryrock	635	+16

Adjacent scenes

How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in August 2026; movement compares that against July 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.